#commander 2020

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Sol Ring

Lost to time is the artificer's art of trapping light from a distant star in a ring of purest gold.

Artist: Mike Bierek TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Cleansing Nova

In their final moments, the demons gazed upon grace in its purest form.

Artist: Noah Bradley

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Nesting Grounds (Commander 2020) - Yeong-Hao Han

More cards with art by Yeong-Hao Han on Scryfall

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Flavor Text Highlights - Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths + Commander 2020

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Cool - Fierce Guardianship

“Hunt somewhere else. This is your only warning.” —Gavi, nest warden

Funny - Thieving Otter

“You’re telling me we spent a year securing the sanctuary against pterosaurs, rambeasts, and nightfangs … and we were robbed by what?” —Endris, Drannith magistrate

Funny - Boot Nipper

“I have a number of hyper-specific phobias and this somehow hits all of them.” —Aaru, Zagoth lumberjack

Emotional - Bonder's Ornament

“Found families deserve a family crest too.” —Kinnan, bonder prodigy

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Tayam, Luminous Enigma by Sam Burley

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Today's budget commander sleeper visit us from Ikoria's commander set, and while they have different use cases, they're both gonna be used to protect your best creature (likely your commander) for the foreseeable future with a keyword counter.

Hexproof and Indestructible are both likely the most powerful evergreen keyword abilities, with only double strike maybe giving them a run for their money (and some protections, depending on the parameter). They both blank a vast swath of interaction, and while neither is a perfect shield against everything, hexproof will make every targeted removal or stealing effect irrelevant, and Indestructible will allow you to ignore the vast majority of board wipes (a few staply ones get around, Farewell and Toxic Deluge being the most relevant.)

Daring Fiendbonder can be activated on the cheap and from your graveyard, which means it might not even cost you a card, with how easily black can get cards into its graveyard through discard or self-mill. If you end up casting it and forcing your opponents to choose between taking five every turn or sacrificing a creature and giving you an indestructible counter, that's fine too.

Slippery Bogbonder will always cost you 4 mana, but can be kept up at instant speed to counter a removal when it is deployed, and since it has an etb, it can be relatively easily reused through blink, regrowths and similar. And it has hexproof itself and a 3/3 hexproof you can add stuff to can be quite annoying in the first place.

Of course, they can both be even better if you can somehow multiply and share the counters around, but it's not necessary for them to be good. Any deck with a valuable commander they want to keep on the battlefield can make use of one or both of these two, and they currently retail for less than 50 cents thanks to a reprint of the Bogbonder in New Capenna's precons.

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Dinosaure et chat

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Brallin, Skyshark Rider and Shabraz, the Skyshark by Paul Canavan